[Pyobjc-dev] Re: interface builder queries

[Michael H. <mw...@py...>]

Just van Rossum <ju...@le...> writes:

>> > 2) How hard is it to generate/manipulate NIBs programmatically?
>> > They're mostly NSArchivered lumps of data, right?  The point behind
>> > this question is that I have a description of various data formats
>> > and it might save time to generate a really clunky interface from
>> > this description, and then turn it into a less clunky interface by
>> > monkeying about in IB (but not have to sort *all* those connections
>> > out by hand).
>
> It would depend on the amount of monkeying around you plan to do, but
> maybe it's an option to create those bits of the interface in code.

That would be missing the point of what I want to acheive: I want to
do things like group controls into NSTabViews & edit some text.  Yes,
I could do this in code, but I'm not going to :-)

> It's not pretty, but not _that_ hard either.

Nor is it really important, certainly not important enough to endure
this level of unprettyness...

Cheers,
mwh

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